Citas Petryna -d-

- Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations-

" Ulrich Beck noted that Chernobyl was an "anthropological shock" in Westerrn Europe. The shock came from the fact that everyday knowledge proved useless in the face of this catastrophe, as did expert knowledge. This "collapse" of knowledge also occurred, but in another way, in the other Europe. Chernobyl was associated with the collapse of Soviet life in general. Knowledge about risk, how to deliver it, how to value it, became something of a political resource. In this disaster's wake a state, a society, and knowlegde have been reconfigured."